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Timestamps
[00:00:00] – Introduction & Kevin Carter’s Background
[00:02:00] – Journey to Rackspace and Open Source
[00:04:00] – Engineering Culture and Pushing Boundaries
[00:06:00] – Rackspace Spot and Market-Based Compute
[00:08:00] – Cognitive vs. Technical Barriers in Cloud Adoption
[00:10:00] – Tying Spot to OpenStack and Resource Scheduling
[00:12:00] – Product Roadmap and Expansion of Spot
[00:16:00] – Hardware Constraints and Power Consumption
[00:18:00] – Scrappy Startups and Emerging Hardware Solutions
[00:20:00] – Programming Languages for Accelerators (e.g., Mojo)
[00:22:00] – Evolving Role of Software Engineers
[00:24:00] – Importance of Collaboration and Communication
[00:28:00] – Building Personal Networks Through Open Source
[00:30:00] – The Power of Asking and Offering Help
[00:34:00] – A Question No One Asks: Mentors
[00:38:00] – The Power of Educators and Mentorship
[00:40:00] – Rackspace’s OpenStack and Spot Ecosystem Strategy
[00:42:00] – Open Source Communities to Join
[00:44:00] – Simplifying Complex Systems
[00:46:00] – Getting Started with Rackspace Spot and GitHub
[00:48:00] – Human Skills in the Age of GenAI - Post Interview Conversation
[00:54:00] – Processing Feedback with Emotional Intelligence
[00:56:00] – Encouraging Inclusive and Clear Collaboration

Quotes

Charna Parkey

“If you can’t engage with this infrastructure in a way that’s going to help you, then I guarantee you it’s not up to par for the direction that we’re going. [...] This democratization — if you don’t know how to use it — it’s not doing its job.”

Kevin Carter

“Those scrappy startups are going to be the ones that solve it. They’re going to figure out new and interesting ways to leverage instructions. [...] You’re going to see a push from them into the hardware manufacturers to enhance workloads on FPGAs, leveraging AVX 512 instruction sets that are historically on CPU silicon, not on a GPU.”

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Season 7 · Episode 8

Democratizing Cloud Infrastructure | Kevin Carter

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